6 May 2025
after submitting my PhD thesis on fonio millet, 2 new pre-prints of my research are available now: a) phylogenetics and history of 4 Digitaria millet crops, and b) germination ecology and climate modelling of fonio suitability in the future 🤠🌾links below! #SSCPDTP #kewscience
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1 Mar 2024
anyone at Monocots I'll be giving a talk on Friday 15th, 10.40am in the grasses session!! farms, food, genes, something for everyone #monocots #kewscience #sscpdtp
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29 Feb 2024
black fonio (digitaria iburua) from Nigeria grown at Kew - she's healthy happy and set seed. a bumper crop! #fonio #sscpdtp #kewscience 🤠
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19 Feb 2024
the fonio variety 'balé' has been flowering in the kew glasshouse, an early variety in Guinea that has seen a significant decline over the last decade @KewScience #sscpdtp 🌾
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9 Feb 2024
Also a hot new accompanying day in the life blog now on the Grantham website!! never before seen photos of me climbing a fence and sitting on the floor - granthaminstitute.com/2024/0… 🌱🧬🌾🥳🌈🤠 #sscpdtp
9 Feb 2024
📢 New paper
Collaborating with local farmers in Fouta Djallon (Guinea), @cropsandbops investigates how fonio – a West African crop that provides #FoodSecurity security to communities in West Africa –has changed in living memory. 🍃
👉ow.ly/ZYgT50Qzajy
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8 Nov 2023
We're offering 17 fully funded NERC studentships for PhDs starting in October 2024.
Click here for more details: jobs.bbstem.co.uk/job/studen…
#NERCPhD #ImperialCollegeLondon #ClimateChangeResearch #EnvironmentalScience #PhDStudentship #SSCPDTP #ResearchFunding #AcademicOpportunity
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27 Oct 2023
excited to have rare Black Fonio, usually restricted to remote areas of northern Nigeria, Togo and Benin growing at Kew, to investigate genetic domestication histories and futures 🧬🌾 #sscpdtp
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7 Sep 2023
i'm giving a talk tomorrow on bringing together anthropology and genetics for future sustainable food systems!! last slot of the day 🌾🌞 #sscpdtp
Talks from first day of the Joint DTP Conference done and a break in the sun before posters and social
@SCENARIO_DTP @London_NERC_DTP
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29 Aug 2023
seedlings of Digitaria sanguinalis (historically cultivated as Polish millet) ready for chromosome counts ! 🌱🌾 #kewscience #sscpdtp
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8 Aug 2023
sending RNA samples of fonio millet (Digitaria exilis) off for sequencing - months of work in 96 lil tubes. pls pray for the piles of dry ice 🧊 🙏 #sscpdtp #kewscience #cropgenetics
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25 Jul 2023
first time RNA extractions on my fonio seedlings 🤏🧬🔬not bad at all, lots more to go #sscpdtp #kewscience
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23 Jun 2023
trialing methods for seed morphometric analysis, trying to save lots of time/not go blind measuring thousands of fonio seeds #sscpdtp @Kew_MSBUK @HerbierGuinee 🧐
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19 Jun 2023
looking at results for some drought tolerance tests, with our strongest lil seedling circled (very small, very dry), some good evidence for Fonio's resilience to difficult climates. seed collected with @HerbierGuinee 🌿🤠 #sscpdtp @Kew_MSBUK
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27 Apr 2023
finished the last batch of heat stress trials today! moving onto genome sizing, gene expression and drought stress next ☀️ 🌧 #sscpdtp #kewscience
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13 Apr 2023
testing the heat stress resilience of fonio seeds collected in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea last year with partners in @HerbierGuinee @EcologieGuinee @UGANC_Guinee, at @Kew_MSBUK 🤠🌾🌿 #sscpdtp #kewscience @Grantham_IC
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11 Apr 2023
guess which ones have been incubated at 45 degrees 🫠 fonio heat stress trials going well, accessions from Burkina Faso and Mali #sscpdtp #kewscience
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